Zealous Stories
To share our happiness on our tenth anniversary, we’ve increased the prize for winners from £100 to £250 across this year.
10th Year Edition
How it works
Monthly Call
Each month we celebrate a different medium.
Submit for Free
Submit your best work. That’s it!
Industry Judges
Get your work seen by exciting organisations
Win
Be featured across our channels and get £250
Submit
Each month Zealous celebrates a different medium. Click on the medium of choice below for more information.
Dec ’21
Christmas
no competition this month
Past Judges
Each stories has its own panel of judges, each from some of the UK’s most respected creative organisations.
Past Winners
Read the inspirational stories of past winners of our Stories series.
FAQs
We’ve tried to keep submitting to stories as simple as possible, but here are answers to a few common questions
We’re interested in celebrating interesting stories. These can be about a specific project, or about your practice.
No, Zealous Stories is absolutely free.
Absolutely, the work belongs to you.
We ask you for the right to be able to share it and publish it on our website (it would be difficult to celebrate you without being able to publish your work!).
Each story we run has a shortlist of about 20 to 25 entries. These will be celebrated across our social media feeds and passed onto the panel of judges from which to pick one winner.
We celebrate the winner with an interview about their work, which we share with our network. They will also take home £250 (no strings attached).
We’re interested in celebrating interesting stories. These can be about a specific project, or about your practice.
Works that do well with our judging panel often have a well-defined purpose and are executed well. High-quality imagery helps. To get inspiration of what has been selected in the past, have a look at the previous winners’ works.
Unfortunately not, however, we are trying to organise portfolio reviews with some of the judges. This isn’t available for all the mediums we run. Take a look at individual call outs for more details.
A big part of our mission is supporting creative industries, and we know that starts with supporting creators.
Stories has been running for a while, but on our 10th year anniversary we thought it would be great to celebrate
It’s been a hard couple of years and we want to do our bit to support you with what we have.
We’re interested in celebrating interesting stories. These can be about a specific project, or about your practice.
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